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020			_a9780674000780 (pbk.)
082			_a320.011 _bRAW
100			_aRawls, John _98251
245			_aA theory of justice
250			_aRev ed.
260			_aCambridge _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press _c1997
300			_axxii, 538p.,
500			_ahttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674000780
520			_a"Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published."
650			_aJustice _92641
650			_aPolitical science--Philosophy _93827
650			_aEthics _92642
650			_aSocial justice _94877
650			_aPhilosophy _91341
650			_aJustice (Philosophy) _92644
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